# Bloch (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/bloch/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from German.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 4,817 |
| US rank (2010) | 6,965 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 64,095 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.6% (4,478 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from German Bloch.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bloch in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.0% |
| Two or more races | 1.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Bloch in the United States, Austria, Brazil and France.

## People named Bloch

- Robert Bloch, American fiction writer (1917–1994)
- Ernest Bloch, American composer (1880-1959)
- Eduard Bloch, Austrian physician (1872-1945)
- Débora Bloch, Brazilian actress
- Joshua Bloch, American software engineer
- Joseph Samuel Bloch, Austro-Hungarian politician and rabbi (1850-1923)
- Albert Bloch, American artist (1882-1961)
- Stella Bloch, American journalist (1897–1999)
- Maurice Bloch, anthropologist
- Andy Bloch, American poker player
- Arthur Bloch, American writer and humorist, author of the Murphy's Law books
- Spencer Bloch, American mathematician

and 1 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Balch, Bulloch, Bleich, Baloch, Block, Balogh, Blough, Black, Blake, Bullock, Bowles, Bliss.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.